Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

[ShinHakkaider]

I have SOOOOOOOO MUCH grey (white) plastic in terms of miniatures. I have two of the earliest Reaper Bones Kickstarted supported at a $150 and $200+ levels so if you know anything about those kickstarters, thats ALOT of minatures.

Then there's my Warhammer 40K habit (no longer a habit if I'm being honest). 12 or 13 different factions, minimum 1000points (smallest) to upward of 7-8,000 points (largest). And a lot of them are assembled, but very few are fully painted.

Then there's the WH40k stuff that's still in boxes. To be fair, I got in the habit of buying two of the starter sets for the last two editions. I had 2 INDOMITUS boxes (one opened and assembled, and the other in the closet) and 2 LEVIATHAN boxes (one opened and assembled, and the other in the closet).

Like I said...I had a HABIT. LOL.

 

[payn]

I have SOOOOOOOO MUCH grey (white) plastic in terms of miniatures. I have two of the earliest Reaper Bones Kickstarted supported at a $150 and $200+ levels so if you know anything about those kickstarters, thats ALOT of minatures.

Then there's my Warhammer 40K habit (no longer a habit if I'm being honest). 12 or 13 different factions, minimum 1000points (smallest) to upward of 7-8,000 points (largest). And a lot of them are assembled, but very few are fully painted.

Then there's the WH40k stuff that's still in boxes. To be fair, I got in the habit of buying two of the starter sets for the last two editions. I had 2 INDOMITUS boxes (one opened and assembled, and the other in the closet) and 2 LEVIATHAN boxes (one opened and assembled, and the other in the closet).

Like I said...I had a HABIT. LOL. View attachment 428754View attachment 428755

Oh yeah. I got piles of Reaper Bones becasue it was too cheap not to back those KS.ers.

 

[Mannahnin]

Does anyone have any recommendations on the "stickytac" you use to attach a mini to a old pill bottle painting handle?

Like Blu Tack?

Blu Tack - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Similar products of various colours are made by many manufacturers, including Faber-Castell's "Tack-it", Henkel's "Fun-Tak", UHU's "Poster Putty" and "Sticky Tack", UFO's "Dough Tack", "Gummy Sticker" Pritt's "Sticky Stuff", Bostik's "Prestik" and Elmer's "Poster Tack". Plasti-Tak by Brooks Manufacturing Company appears to pre-date Blu Tack, with a trademark registration in 1964.<a href="Blu Tack - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a>

Versions of the product are also sold under the generic names "adhesive putty" and "mounting putty". The generic trademark or common name for mounting putty varies by region. It is known as "Patafix" in France, Italy, Portugal, Austria and Turkey, kennaratyggjó in Iceland and lærertyggis in Norway (both meaning "teacher's chewing gum"), häftmassa ("attachment paste") or kludd in Sweden, and wondergom in South Africa (an Afrikaans word, literally translated as "wonder glue").

https://www.amazon.com/blue-tack/s?k=blue+tack

 

[MGibster]

I may have bitten off more than I can chew with the number of dragons I plan on painting (I've already painted 2 wizkids adult (large) ones. Warduke for scale, if you can see him...

I had a tough time finding Warduke! That's a lot of dragons. I'm not going to lie. I think you're in trouble.

Does anyone have any recommendations on the "stickytac" you use to attach a mini to a old pill bottle painting handle?

I use double sided tape. But the stickytack I've used in the past was the blue stuff.

Like I said...I had a HABIT. LOL. View attachment 428754View attachment 428755

I can't see them! Attachments won't open for me.

 

[SkidAce]

Does priming a Ral Partha red dragon lead mini from the mid 90s count as stemming the gray tide?

 

[MGibster]

Does priming a Ral Partha red dragon lead mini from the mid 90s count as stemming the gray tide?

It's a start! Bare metal counts as gray for the purposes of this thread.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Does priming a Ral Partha red dragon lead mini from the mid 90s count as stemming the gray tide?

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That's pretty cool. Can't wait to see what it looks like once it's done.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Like Blu Tack?

Yep, something like that. Thank you!

 

[SkidAce]

That's pretty cool. Can't wait to see what it looks like once it's done.

I just resumed painting after getting an actual table group. Been a while, hope I can do it justice. We will see.

 

[SkidAce]

Oh, its not going to be painted as a red, its an evil sidekick to a shadow elf spellblade.

Dark gray, blacks, purple shadows hints of bright blue on exposed bone and claw?

Fingers crossed.